Being a pop star is just about each youngster’s dream job (that’s, till they develop up and understand they’ll should get actually good at TikTok dances), however for some, it’s only a layover on the way in which to their remaining vacation spot: country-music fame.

Some singers do issues the opposite manner round—sure, Taylor Swift, we keep in mind your Nashville period; and sure, all of us need you to make one other nation album, ideally one with Kacey Musgraves—however Lana Del Rey’s current announcement that her subsequent album, Lasso, can be nation, after which Beyoncé’s shock drop of two twangy singles, “Texas Maintain ’Em” and “16 Carriages,” forward of her new nation album, Cowboy Carter, has me reminiscing about different main pop stars who’ve gotten a li’l Southern with it. Under, discover six of the best pop-to-country pivots in music historical past.

Cyndi Lauper

This ’80s phenom is perhaps greatest identified for crooning about how women simply wish to have enjoyable (that’s all we actually need! Some enjoyable!), however she launched her first nation album, Detour, in 2016, that includes everybody from Vince Gill to Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson. “After I was a extremely younger child, nation music was pop music, so that is what we grew up listening to,” Lauper mentioned on the time.

Tina Turner